Mad Science argues that the fundamental claims of modern American psychiatry are based on misconceived, flawed, and distorted science.

The authors address multiple paradoxes in American mental health research, including the remaking of coercion into scientific psychiatric treatment, the adoption of an unscientific diagnostic system that controls the distribution of services, and how drug treatments have failed to improve the mental health outcome.

When it comes to understanding and treating mental illness, distortions of research are not rare, misinterpretation of data is not isolated, and bogus claims of success are not voiced by isolated researchers seeking aggrandizement. This book's detailed analysis of coercion and community treatment, diagnosis, and psychopharmacology reveals that these characteristics are endemic, institutional, and protected in psychiatry. They are not just bad science, but mad science.

Tomi Gomory is a Fulbright Scholar and Associate Professor at the Collage of Social Work, Florida State University.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1412855926/

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http://archive.org/details/thomas-szasz-the-manufacture-of-madness-audio

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